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paleaceous
paleaceous, a. Bot. (peɪliːˈeɪʃəs) [f. L. palea (see prec.) + -aceous.] Furnished or covered with paleæ or chaff-like scales; of the nature or consistence of chaff; chaffy.1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Receptaculum, Its surface is sometimes naked, and sometimes paleaceous..all over beset with narro...
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palea
‖ palea (ˈpeɪliːə) Pl. -eæ (-iːiː). [L. palea chaff.] 1. Bot. A chaff-like bract or scale; esp. the inner bracts enclosing the stamens and pistil in the flower of grasses (opposed to the glumes or outer bracts); also, those at the bases of the individual florets in many Compositæ; the scales on the ...
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xeranthemum
‖ xeranthemum Bot. (zɪəˈrænθɪməm) [mod.L. (Tournefort, 1700), f. Gr. ξηρός dry + ἄνθεµον blossom.] A plant of a genus of composites of the Mediterranean region, having flower-heads with dry chaffy bracts of a purplish or whitish colour; the genus itself; one kind of the plants commonly called everla...
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plano-convex
ˌplano-ˈconvex, a. [f. as prec. + convex.] 1. Having one surface plane and the opposite one convex: chiefly of lenses; also of natural formations, as parts of plants or animals, or other objects.1665 Hooke Microgr. Pref. f j, I fixt also with wax a pretty large plano Convex Glass. 1693, 1807 [see pr...
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chaffy
▪ I. chaffy, a.1 (ˈtʃɑːfɪ, -æ-) [f. chaff n.1 + -y1.] 1. Full of or covered with chaff.1552 Huloet, Chaffye or full of chaffe, acerosus. 1601 Holland Pliny xix. i, To lie and sleep upon straw-beds and chaffy couches. 1797 Coleridge Kubla Khan, Like..chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. 1865 Li...
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